Leadership in the Cuban Revolution : The Unseen Story.

Front cover -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Spanish Terms -- Stylistic Notes -- Introduction: The Problem With 'fidel-centrism' -- Classic assumptions: personality cults, coercion and the military -- The state and the monolith? -- Debate -- 1 The Core Leadership: The Familiar Triumvirate -- Fidel Castro -- Che Guevara -- Raúl Castro -- Conclusion -- 2 The Formation of 'The Vanguard': 1953-58 -- 3 Taking Stock and Finding Direction: 1959-62 -- External and internal pressures on Cuba -- Understanding divisions -- Early unity -- The rebel alliance of 1959 -- The 26 July Movement and the PSP -- Hidden government? -- The battles within the CTC -- The 'Escalante affair' -- The early 'inner circle' and its historic 'core' -- Ex-guerrillas and the military -- Leading veterans? -- Women in the inner circle -- The Llano -- The PSP after 1959 -- The Directorio Revolucionario -- 'Independent' radicals -- The apostates -- Inner and outer circles -- 4 The Years of 'Revolutionary' Flux: 1963-75 -- The changing state -- The new radicalism -- The new inner circle -- The intermediate and outer circles -- 5 The Stable Years: Systems, Institutions and Bureaucrats: 1975-86 -- Contested institutionalisation -- Return of the PSP? -- The changing world and changing Cuba in the 1980s: a new crisis -- Changes to the circles of power -- 6 The Return of Fluidity: 1986 to the Present -- Explaining 'Rectification' -- The Third Party Congress of 1986 -- The 1989-94 crisis and economic and political reform -- The changing state and the changing inner circle -- Reflections on the changing circles -- 7 Inclusion and Exclusion: 'Within' and 'Against' the Revolution -- Cuban history and the evolution of a culture of inclusion -- The creation of a sense of 'us' and 'them' after 1959.

Defining 'inside' and 'against' the Revolution -- The role and nature of debate -- 8 Inclusion and Collectivity: A Revolutionary Corporatism? -- Seeking paradigms -- Corporatism -- A post-colonial corporatism? -- The colonial binary of 'problem' and 'solution' -- The imperative of nation-building -- The Cuban case -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

A history of the forgotten leaders of the Cuban Revolution.

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